Monthly Archives: April 2016

Welcome to Episode 37: Knitting Wednesdays at Walter Reed Hospital help family and friends of soldiers and veterans recovering from wounds

Brainy Thing: 19.28 Behind the Redwood Curtain: 29:14

What We’re Learning from Our Knitting

Catherine finished her Among the wildflowers bandana cowl which was another opportunity to use beads. She used Rizoni yarn from The Loom (The loombangkok.com). Sasha Ball Rives was the designer of the free design. In addition to designing, she owns the Stitch Space yarn shop in Missouri.

On her travels back home to help her mom pack up her house of 65 years, Margaret discovered several knitting pieces she has done over the year. One was an amorphic scarf out of unidentified specialty acrylic yarn that was her first knitting project. Another was Adele Cutten’s design Fine Shawl on Diagonal out of Be Sweet Baby Mohair. Her mother didn’t want it anymore, so Margaret got a new scarf.

Welcome to Episode 36: New Muscle Memory Research May Help Knitters and Crocheters

What we learned from our knitting:

Margaret played with crocheted hearts from DIY Wedding by Jennifer E. Ryan either in Interweave Crochet Summer 2015 or as a special collection on the Interweave Website. They were cute, quick and fun. They are called Guest Lapel Pins on Ravelry. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/guest-lapel-pins

Catherine shares Towashis she received from her swap. One was made of a worsted cotton, the second from sugar and cream and the third was sugar and cream with a portion from the specialized yarn, Sugar and Cream Scrubby which is more specialized to be “scrubbier.”